Bhakti Beirut

Happy Gita Jayanti! The Bhagavad-gita’s 5 topics explained

1) Who Am I? → Soul (atma)
2) Where am I? → Material World (prakrti)
3) What am I doing here? → Activities (karma)
4) How long am I here? → Time (kala)
5) Is there something beyond? → God (Isvara)

Gita Jayanti is the day of the advent of the Bhagavad-gita, when Krishna shared this timeless knowledge with Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra more than 5000 years ago. This is ancient wisdom, ever relevant!

From Keshava Swami

"In the midst of the chaos around us, we need to adapt a positive healthy routine of meditation to give us inner strength and sanity.

Japa meditation is not just any meditation. It is a divine protection and merciful refuge.

Please join us from Monday to Friday online at 6:30 to meditate and chant the Maha-mantra

You can join us anytime between 6:30am and 7am to chant one round or more of 108 Maha-mantras.

Mantra meditation is a transcendental sound vibration that helps you to revive your consciousness.

Man / mana / Mano - mind
Tra / trayate - to deliver
Thats how mantra helps is to be delivered from the mind's fluctuations and calm down the anxiety and stress.."

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Self realization as looking deeper into the autostereogram

When trying to see the image in a autostereogram - one person is saying you have to look at it like this. And then someone else is like, no, you have to look at it like this. It's like you're trying to adjust your vision so that you can see what's there that you haven't been able to see before.
And that's kind of what happens with this kind of spiritual knowledge transformation.
Prahlad (from the text Srimad Bhagavatam), in a sense, he's saying:
"Keep looking at reality. You're looking at your body, you're looking at everything around you and you're thinking, you are that body and you're going to be happy by connecting your body with the things that are around it. Keep looking. Look, hear this, and try to see it. Try to see these six transformations of the body (birth, existence, growth, transformation, dwindling, death), try to see how that comes and goes and we remain the same. Try to see it. Ultimately, you have to try to feel it and you keep staring until it comes out. And that's called self-realization.

From the podcast "Wisdom of the Sages", episodes 1283: Figuring out life begins with "I'm not my body"

(Discussion of verse 7.7.18 from Srimad Bhagavatam)

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Here's your chance to dive deeper into the philosophy of yoga!

Join us as we meet each week to sit down and read a yoga book all together in a group.

Not only will we be reading, but we'll be discussing the ideas and sharing our experiences to help us really understand and apply this wisdom into our daily lives.

When: Every Tuesday at 6:45pm

Where: Ram Yoga School, Sin El Fil

Cost: free! Just make sure to reserve ahead (send a message to )